Food, Fuel, and the New England Environment in the War for Independence, 1775–1776
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16310491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David C Hsiung (David C. Hsiung, the Charles and Shirley Knox Professor of History at Juniata College, in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, is the author of Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes (1997). He is currently working on a larger project integrating environmental history and the American Revolution and welcomes comments and suggestions sent to him at ., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 614-654 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq.2007.80.4.614 |
| OpenAlex | W2159629695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Early in the American Revolution, British and American forces in New England fought to secure natural resources more than they battled each other. By extracting wool, hay, and firewood from a hinterland that barely sustained the civilian population, the Continental Congress and Massachusetts governments exercised powers that would come to shape Americans' relationship with their environment
Archaeology · Economic history · Firewood · Geography · Independence (probability theory · Natural (archaeology · New england · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2018 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |